Help Setting Up Test Account and Test Manager

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Richard Hogg

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Jul 30, 2019, 6:26:52 PM7/30/19

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Hi All,

I know this maybe very simple to most of you, unfortunately i'm not a API Dev, but a Google Ads Account Manager trying to setup our Dev on our accounts to make API calls etc...

We currently have a MCC with around 10-15 accounts live

My understanding so far (after reading the setup guides) is to do the following..

- Setup a Google Account (work email not associated with a production account - test-m...@ourdomain.com)

- Setup a New Google MCC Account (using the Test-m...@ourdomain.com account )and set it as a Test account.

Now this is where i get confused..

Why does this have to be separate to our production accounts? and how can our Dev access our production accounts?

Is there a way to link them?

If anyone could explain step by step in a "dummies guide" way, it would be really appreciated as im getting confused with these different accounts

Also im assuming our Dev also has to have access to the Google Ads API Console to setup OArth2 etc..

Kind Regards,

Rich.

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Jul 31, 2019, 2:18:01 AM7/31/19

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Hi Richard,

Thank you for reaching out.

To help you clear things out, production accounts and test accounts cannot be associated as these 2 have different purposes. Production accounts are used for serving ads and can generate cost and metrics, while test accounts are mainly used for testing your ads. These 2 types have very different environments.

If you wish to create test client accounts, you would need to have a test manager account first. You can create one by following this guide. Your developers will use the OAuth2 credentials generated by the login email of your test manager account. You should also be able to use your current developerToken from your production MCC account to make calls using the API against your test accounts. If your developer token is still unapproved (test account access level) then it should be okay as this should be sufficient to run this. This guide will cover most of your concerns regarding test accounts.

As for production environment, your developers should use the OAuth2 Credentials generated by the login email of your production manager account and use an approved (with basic access level) developer token to make your requests in the production environment.

Regards,
Dannison Heinrich Yao
Google Ads API Team